This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Even people ...
So once or twice a year for the past five years, I have lain inside an MRI tube while the magnets clatter around me, taking pictures of my brain. So far, I have been lucky. My neuroma has not grown. So why...
bear with someone (on something):对某人有耐心麦克米伦词典英语释义:bear with me/us used as a polite way of asking someone to be patient while you do or finish something例句:If you just bear with me for a few more minutes, we’ll have all the paperwork finished.如果你能再等我几分钟,我们...
A rare 765-year-old gold coin found on farm land in Devon in south-west England is expected to sell for up to half a million pounds at auction. It is believed that the coin was made more than 750 years ago, during the rule of the English King Henry III. It is one of only eight...
{尽多一点力/ditto}2a/{推动更激烈的讨价还价}2b)他(结果应该获得)3 (多几块钱)4(来卖他的房子)5.”: He said: “I think if the vendor1 ({pushed the envelope/tried harder}2a/ {drove a harder bargain}2b) he should (have ended up with)3 (a few more dollars)4 (for the sale of ...
Some people , stop at the lips and teeth , cover the years . This may be the final destination of love 121 Because I love you in my heart, I won't forget it all my life. I love you, so I won't let it go all my life. Although falling in love with you is a little bitter,...
“High-speed rail changes life.” That is why China keeps building high-speed rail. China's high-speed rail is funded by the government and has been continuously upgraded over the past five years. China has successfully built a vast, economicall...
A few years ago, I visited the Classical Gardens of Suzhou.During the visit, my attention was drawn away from the plants, bridges and stones, towards 44 walls of the gardens.Mostly white, some parts of the walls are losing small 45 (piece) of their covering.This creates space in which ...
500 miles away to California and started my own life and career. When I moved back near my hometown six years ago, I promised myself that I would spend more time with Mom. But with the demands of my job and three kids, I never got around to seeing her much beyond family get-togethe...
- And who decides what's normal? What if we find a drug that makes people live 20 years longer? Should we ban that because it's not normal? 正不正常应该由谁来定义呢?要是我们发现了一种能令人类多活20年的药,我们是不是应该因为那不正常就禁止它呢?